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- Burglars Tuesday allegedly hurled a rock through the window of a 1985 Mercury Cougar before stealing its pull-out stereo, police said. The auto had been parked in a commuter lot in the 200 block of West Colfax Street, police said.

In his April 24 letter to the editor, Edwin Colfax incorrectly states that no reforms to the death penalty can eliminate the risk of executing the innocent. There is one reform that is simple, would save the taxpayers millions of dollars yearly and would eliminate this risk once and for all: Abolish the death penalty.

Sundance Broadcasting Inc. of Phoenix sold nine radio stations, including Milwaukee's WOKY-AM and WMIL-FM, to Minneapolis-based Colfax Communications Inc. for $95 million. The other stations sold include Phoenix stations KOY-AM, KYOT-FM, KZON-FM and KISO-AM and KIDO-AM, KLTB-FM and KARO-FM in Boise, Idaho.

Seldom does an American citizen say no to a social invitation from the president. It was not always so. Here are four men who declined Lincoln's invitation to Ford's Theatre, April 14, 1865, the night he was assassinated: 1. Son Robert Lincoln. 2. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his wife. 3. House Speaker Schuyler Colfax. 4. Maj. Thomas Eckert.

Two boys, one 11 and the other 7, both from Clarendon Hills, were arrested at 7 p.m. Friday and charged with criminal damage to property, police said. The two boys allegedly spray-painted the interior of a house under construction in the 400 block of Colfax Avenue, police said. The boys were released to their parents.

A manager at Discount Muffler, 623 W. Colfax St., was arrested Wednesday after allegedly putting an employee in a headlock during an argument over a work order, police said. Raymond M. Richardson, 25, of 902 W. Baldwin Rd., Palatine, was charged with battery, police said.

The owner of a 1991 Pontiac told police that vandals shot a BB through the vehicle's rear window Sunday night while he was driving on Richmond Avenue between Colfax and Ridge Avenues. The driver was not injured during the incident, police said. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $300.

Police said they charged Frank Williamson, 48, of 9548 S. Colfax Ave., Chicago, with forgery Tuesday after he was accused of trying to cash a check made out to someone else at Harrah's Casino, 151 N. Joliet St. He was taken to the Will County Jail for a bond hearing, police said.